Pocomoke City, Maryland

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pocomoke City, dubbed "the friendliest town on the Eastern Shore", is a city in Worcester County, Maryland, United States. Although renamed in a burst of civic enthusiasm in 1878, the city is regularly referred to by its inhabitants simply as Pocomoke. The population was 4,098 at the 2000 census. Beginning in the late 17th century, a small settlement called Stevens Landing (sometimes Stevens Ferry) grew at the ferry landing on the south bank of the Pocomoke River. The town was incorporated as Newtown (or New Town) in 1865, but was reincorporated in 1878 as Pocomoke City, after the Indian name of the river, meaning "black water." Newtown was renamed after being placed on the list of banned cities by the US Navy due to the amount of crime, bootleg rum, whiskey and open prostitution. The town fathers who had a hand in the illegal activities did not want to lose their best source of customers, drunken sailors to the town was re-named Pocomoke with a sanitized history rewritten.